Being knowledgeable in public is socially unaceptable
in Canada. Physical culture is highly rewarded in Canada.
Some arts also, but academics not nearly so much. In fact
the arts tend to be anti-academic even.
Peter
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From: Nancy Gish [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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I don't think I know why because it is not true everywhere. But I think it
is
very disturbing and destructive of a culture.
Nancy
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Subject: Re: Rhapsody in Bloom - a book review
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From: Nancy Gish [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
I agree that America seldom does
seem to care about the views of intellectuals, professorial or not, hence
derogatory words like "pointy head" as if it were somehow an elitist
disgrace to think or read or study.
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Does it perhaps come from a fear of the other's knowledge,
a kind of fear of the unknown?
Peter
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